Great Britain Philatelic Society

Robinr

Brilliant! Thanks a ton! We'll be in England next month and I'll buy a map of some kind to help me with exactly this kind of thing. As a matter of interest - and please only trouble to reply if the answer is yes - have many villages and towns changed names in the last 75 years or so? When we get bac...

Robinr

Hi Caesley, If this is fun for you - here's another... Double circle, 1936. The upper name is clear but unfinished: HEPPLEF And the lower part is perfect as MORPETH NORTH. I guessed the Hepplef... might be Heppleford, but Google only gave me a lot of stuff about an aristocrat in a novel. Here in Car...

Robinr

Many thanks to both of you! Greatly appreciated! Robin

Robinr

Brilliant!

Many thanks and good luck!

Robin

Robinr

http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1754_1.jpg Dear All, I have a very interesting block of eight KE8 stamps used, presumably on a bulky letter or package. The cancellation has the date: 1. (blank) PM/16 FE/37 inside the inner circle, while round it, within the outer circle is: ABBEY.W...

Robinr

number it is. It's a left side pane (watermark upright). So if read along the side would appear to be OTOT... or more likely that upside down. If anybody else has any booklet panes with this rather distinctive, or any other kind of printers quantity number in the selvage... please post a scan! Thank...

Robinr

Harvey, as usual, you keep the discussion board, or at least this part of it alive! Thanks yet again. But... Please can you give me a reference for this, an illustration, or an article? Or do you mean that all sheets destined for use as booklets have a black(ish) number printed in the margin exactly...

Robinr

Dear All,

I have found the letters OHOH running down the selvage on a booklet pane, and am mystified.

Can somebody help, please?

Robinr

Robinr

Robin, The situation and experience you describe is not uncommon in most if not all fields of competition. It is illuminating to read letters written by judges who can be just as bitter and disillusioned. The third corner of the triangle is that of the club or society workers who organize and run th...

Robinr

Of course I had to look at my overprinted sheets of the tuppenny-ha'penny blue... mine do not have the Q for G flaw. The no stop pane was from the seventh printing, while the stop pane was from the 5th, 6th or 7th printing. This reinforces the aspect that the formes were changed, and no doubt the bl...

Robinr

Hi John, I know that I have a stack of covers addressed to the Miss(es) Pearson somewhere, mostly the '37 Coronation stamp but also KE8. I did a simple analysis of all those covers back when I collected them - but not sure what I dug up on these ladies. Soon as we get back from England I'll dig them...

Robinr

Hi Ron, and now John, and whoever else... I just picked up Hugh Vallancey's little book, "The Postage Stamps of King Edward VIII", published in 1948. On page 35 there is a photograph of a Control block cylinder 2, of the Tuppenny-ha'penny Bright Blue, overprinted with MOROCCO AGENCIES. The...

Robinr

Hi Ron, Your 5/5 flaw is from pane A/36, cylinder 12 no stop, probably the fourth overprint printing, and is apparently only partially constant. (Soucre, reference: "Morocco Agencies/Tangier Study Paper 3c. The Overprints of the King Edward VIII issues of Great Britain", published by the G...

Robinr

Dear All, I very much need to be able to examine the upper right quarter sheet of both the KGVI 1937 penny-halfpenny Maroon-brown Coronation stamp cylinder 7 no stop with the "Tennis Ball" flaw on stamp R7/6, and on cylinder 10 no stop "Tennis Ball" flaw on stamp R7/6. At the ver...

Robinr

Dear All, I very much need to be able to examine the upper right quarter sheet of both the KGVI 1937 penny-halfpenny Maroon-brown Coronation stamp cylinder 7 no stop with the "Tennis Ball" flaw on stamp R7/6, and on cylinder 10 no stop "Tennis Ball" flaw on stamp R7/6. At the ver...

Robinr

Dear All, The following refers to stamps produced by rotogravure from late KGV through late KGVI. In The GBJ, vol.1, No.9, p.113 (1958), R.F. Strange reported the find of a transfer shift on the KGVI 1½d red-brown (SG464). He found the shift on no less than six individual used stamps, and appealed t...

Robinr

http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1560_1.jpg Evening All, Has anybody seen this before? I'm sure it has no philatelic significance, and is possibly (probably?) the work of idle hands. I came across it in a "bag of bits and pieces to look at one day", and remembered that som...

Robinr

Dear All, Does anybody have a list, or scans,of the flaws on Cylinder 3 of the 1937 Coronation stamp, either with or without stop? If so, please contact me. I have a thorough check of both panes, but only from singles and need to be able to confirm what is constant and what is ephemeral. From a stud...

Robinr

Thanks Harvey.
Another fine theory exploded!
But there is still the possibility of minor flaws I suppose....
Cheers, Robin (R)

Robinr

Dear All, I understand that the little 6d booklets containing just two pairs of stamps were made up from the outside two columns from standard sheets. The problem with identifying the panes for authenticity is understandable. And since it has been said that the trimming of the margin is so close tha...

Robinr

Dear KEVIII enthusiasts, I am deep into analyzing the 2½d Blue. I am finding it to be much more complex than Kirk writes. I am writing now to see if anybody with sheets and several blocks is willing to exchange news, views and opinions, and if so, to contact me direct . From a lot of experience with...

Robinr

Dear All,

Please could somebody scan and post here the smudge described by Kirk for State 1a that appears in the full length of the margin to the left of the control of the 2 1/2d blue?

Very many thanks,

Robin R

Robinr

This is directed primarily to Robin Tibbenham, but of course anybody is very welcome to respond. I posted it on KGVI but no reply, and suspect that Robin only checks "Booklets" ;>)..... Dear Robin, I've just finished reading a report from the National Postal Archives on the production of t...

Robinr

Since writing the above, I have seen several examples of this overprint on KEVII and am satisfied that the chances of it being genuine are high. I'm now hoping that it might turn up on KEVIII...

Robin R.

Robinr

Dear Anon, Very interesting, and thanks a bunch. Whilst I am at the moment only concerned with the SPECIMEN and CANCELLED overprints on KEIII and KGVI Coronation - I am intrigued by certain aspects of the whole overprint subject. With regard to turf definitions, I cannot understand why an overprint ...

Robinr

This is directed primarily to Robin Tibbenham, but of course anybody is very welcome to respond. Dear Robin, I've just finished reading a report from the Royal Postal Archives on the production of the Coronation stamp. From mid-December when it was thought to be virtually impossible to produce any c...

Robinr

Dear Anon, Your turn to raise an interesting issue! As there is not, by any account, and authoritative source of information about the colonial post offices - like for example, when was any Portugese territory part of a British colony? how can, or on what basis does a certifying authority KNOW whthe...

Robinr

Has anybody ever seen this before?

The word SPECIMEN is stamped in blue ink.

If it is a simple bogus invention, one might expect the inking to have been done a little better. But maybe that's only wishful thinking.

Any thoughts or comments will be very welcome.

Robin R.

Robinr

Dear All,
No need to respond. I found the piece a few minutes ago! Apologies.
Robin R.

Robinr

Thanks Harvey, I literally found the piece a couple of minutes ago. But the variety has nothing to do with the overprint - and all to do with the sheets being askew and crooked when cut into two panes. But, to recall a point made rather strongly by RobinT, does the overprint mean that the stamp is n...

Robinr

Dear All KGVI collectors, A couple or more decades ago, I saw an item in Murray Payne's list for an "Official notch" in the margin of sheets of the GB 1937 Coronation stamp. The notch was on a series of sheets of the Morocco overprint... A small order resulted resulted in the arrival of a ...

Robinr

Somewhere a few months ago, I read of a cover designed for the Coronation of KEVIII, stamped with the four stamps, and cancelled on 12th May, 1937. There was a photo of the cover, and it looked pretty good! I think it might have been in an old copy of the Newsletter... I think it was shown as an exa...

Robinr

Hi All, Herewith a couple of reconstructions from several. I must admit to being absolutely in the dark as to what I have here, so if any of you geniuses who specialize in booklets can explain and enlighten me - I'll be delighted. Apologies for the weight of the scan, I thought it best to put qualit...

Robinr

Somewhere a few months ago, I read of a cover designed for the Coronation of KEVIII, stamped with the four stamps, and cancelled on 12th May, 1937. There was a photo of the cover, and it looked pretty good! I think it might have been in an old copy of the Newsletter... I think it was shown as an exa...

Robinr

Hi All, Last week I noticed the KEVIII stamp with the word PROOF instead of postage on eBay. This morning I saw it on Arthur Ryan's list at 120 pounds. SG is unequivocal in referring to it as a fake. Since those unused/nonsensical Nazi wartime propaganda "forgeries" are currently being off...

Robinr

Hi Robin T and John, To my surprise, I found an attempt to plate some KGVI booklet panes, tucked away in my not-looked-at-for-30-years drawer of KGVI. That was a couple of months ago. We're now travelling, visiting children and grandchildren, but will be home 7th of November. Soon as possible afterw...

Robinr

Hi Barry, Many thanks for a prompt and totally helpful explanation! So, both are right! The line APPEARS to be vertical but is in fact slanted, and is vertical on upright-printed sheets and sideways on sideways-printed sheets. I like the idea of collecting from the same sheet to see how far the flaw...

Robinr

Dear All, On a current thread on booklets there are two apparently totally conflicting statements - from people who know their stamps very well. I hope they'll forgive me paraphrasing: 1. Those vertical ink lines that pop up now and then on pieces, blocks, etc., are (and are invariably referred to a...

Robinr

Totally agree! Those minor flaws can be so very helpful in many ways. I found that some major "unknown location" flaws on the 1937 Coronation stamp that could be found on floating blocks, could be placed to cylinder by them. And those unidentified quarter sheets can be numbered easily as w...

Robinr

Dear Ron and Harvey, I think Harvey is right, just because a flaw is published, with evidence, does not mean a catalogue editor will take it in. I suspect there is editorial policy and financial restraints involved more than the catalogue buying public would realize. For example, could you imagine a...

Robinr

Well, I don't actually KNOW what I'm talking about! As I think I understand it, the visual flat artwork for a sheet of stamps was assembled, photographed onto a film negative, copied onto another film so that the image is positive, and then that was "printed" onto sheet metal where it look...

Robinr

Dear All, The responses to my eBay query, both those posted here and many direct to me have been really most gratifying. Thank you all. It shows that the potential of these discussion boards to exchange news and views is as great as Mike and Maurice must have hoped at the start-up. After getting con...

Robinr

Thanks Ron, I THINK I can see a faint line running down the right side of 19/2 and 20/2. If you look at the attached, left side block, you should see it. Ignore the colour and contrast, I Photoshopped it to enhance the flaw, I call it tramlines. On this block it runs the length of the three stamps, ...

Robinr

Dear Mike and all who responded, both here and directly. Living in Venezuela, Google decides what the priorities in terms of responses to searches are, and they are sometimes very different to those you get in the UK. I was wandering around ebay USA. It took me a while to realize there was an ebay.c...

Robinr

Thanks Ron, Very helpful! Can you follow up with a scan of the whole block of 15 spot (if you have the six block), please? Once I get enough material I'll be able to explain what I'm trying to resolve.

All the best, Robin

Robinr

Dear All, I have never used ebay for anything, but remember being suspicious of fraud when it started up, and stayed away. This morning it occurred to me that it might be a place where I could find KEVIII cylinder blocks, so I took a look. Bottom line is that I found confusion and disappointment. Fr...

Robinr

Hi watermark fans (!),

Is there any interest in watermark errors?

I have a few on '37 Coronation cylinder blocks and also on KEVIII cylinder blocks.

Robin R.

Robinr

http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1431_1.jpg Dear All, I have just found this flaw on stamp R20/5 on pane 10 stop. It looks pretty dramatic and certainly worthy of noting for show. BUT... is it constant? If anybody has a sheet, or lower left quarter sheet, or any piece that covers th...

Robinr

Dear Ron,

It would be very helpful if you could scan the full blocks at reasonably high res, please. I'd be very happy to see all three, full blocks. Thanks a ton,

Cheers,

Robin

Robinr

Dear All KE enthusiasts, Does anybody have any cylinder blocks of halfpenny green, cyl.15, both stop and no stop? According to Kirk, there are two states producing three different blocks. These are, with stop (just a single state) and no stop first and second state. However, I think Kirk might have ...

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